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Description

xxvii, 297 p.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: reopening the case of Peter Pan -- Kids, fairy tales, and the uses of enchantment -- Child analysis, play, and the golden age of Pooh -- Three case histories: Alice, Peter Pan, and OZ -- Maurice Sendak and picturebook psychology -- "A case history of us all": the adolescent novel before and after Salinger -- T is for trauma: the children's literature of atrocity.